Regional alliances can defeat NDA in 2019: Sitaram Yechury

Yechury was speaking on the sidelines of two-day 11th state conference of the Jammu and Kashmir CPI (M) at SKICC in Srinagar and was attended by hundreds of participants.

SRINAGAR: The CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury here in Srinagar stated that NDA could be replaced in 2019 elections through regional alliances, as pan-India grand alliance may not be possible.

In reference to recent debacle in elections in Tripura, Yechury lamented that electoral politics is being manipulated through political funding, which has put the CPI-M at disadvantageous position.

Yechury was speaking on the sidelines of two-day 11th state conference of the Jammu and Kashmir CPI (M) at SKICC in Srinagar and was attended by hundreds of participants.

“For 2019, I think regional alliances will work effectively to remove current dispensation from power. Pan India alliance may not be possible. And the opposition has to give policy alternative to the country,” Yechury said here. He further said that losing an election doesn’t mean that the ideology has lost.

The NDA regime in New Delhi, Yechury said has ‘no roadmap’ for anything and they lack clarity even on foreign relations and have only managed to ‘create communal atmosphere’ across country.

“They recently passed Finance bill without any discussion in parliament paving way for nasty donations for political parties of which BJP is the highest beneficiary. Every institution is being damaged systematically and even Supreme Court was not spared,” Yechury said.

In mainland India private armies, in the name of cow vigilantism, moral policing, romeo squads and even film censorship armies are being promoted, said Yechury adding, “the country is facing a major threat and we have to remove this government to save this country.”

India, Yechury said has become America’s subordinate ally and dangerous US-India-Israel nexus is creating new axis, central to which are the arms deals.

For J&K, Yechury said, the dialogue process has to be started as soon as possible and government has to clarify its stand regarding its relationship with Pakistan.

“The PDP-BJP government in J&K is the biggest contradiction. Ever since Modi government took over, Kashmir is being tackled through military means only. Kashmir is a political problem and until talks aren’t held with all the stakeholders in the state and with Pakistan, this issue can’t be resolved,” he said.